Ursula Perkow

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Ursula Perkow (born February 10, 1944 in Heidelberg ; † May 7, 2009 ibid) was a German librarian and local history researcher as well as senior librarian at Heidelberg University Library .

Life

She was the daughter of the chemist Werner Perkow and attended the Mönchhofschule in Heidelberg-Neuenheim for a few months before the family moved to Hamburg in 1950 , where they attended the Slomanstieg elementary school and later the Klosterschule girls' high school. She studied German and history in Hamburg and Heidelberg. She completed her first state examination in Hamburg in 1969 for teaching at grammar schools. In 1971 she obtained her doctorate in Hamburg. phil. In Bielefeld, she completed an apprenticeship as a scientific librarian, from 1972 she was at the librarianship training institute in Cologne. She wrote her thesis on the history of the Altenberg monastery library . In 1973 she became a research assistant at the University Library in Nuremberg-Erlangen . In 1975 she moved to the university library in her hometown of Heidelberg, where she became a library councilor, in 1981 was promoted to senior librarianship. a. Deputy head of the user department, head of the coding department and magazine acquisition and administrator of the estate index. In 2007 she asked for a retirement for health reasons.

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Her work against the auction of the inventory of the monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in Baden-Baden and the manuscript collection of the House of Baden should be mentioned. In the area of ​​new media, she opened up some library holdings for digital presentation, including the letters from Liselotte von der Pfalz .

Her research activities focused on the first American and English spa guests in Baden-Baden, for which she edited an extensive publication in the spa town in 1990 under the title Residents and Visitors . A comparable publication that had begun on early American-English visitors in Heidelberg remained unfinished. She was one of the founders of the Handschuhsheimer history workshop. She wrote 17 historical articles for the Heidelberg district association, including a. about the folk song tradition of the district, about the career of the poet Otto Roquette and that of the court conductor Johann Knöfel or the murder of the Scottish language teacher Thomas Reid in Heidelberg in 1905.

Foundation, endowment

Coming from a musical family, Ursula Perkow learned to play the piano and flute. In 2005 she set up a foundation to support qualified students of the music school in the field of string quartet , which was topped up again with funds from her estate and has since been called the Dr. Ursula Perkow Foundation for the String Quartet .

Fonts (selection)

  • Water consecration, baptism and sponsorship among the Northern Germans. Diss. Hamburg 1972
  • Contributions to the library history of the former Cistercian Abbey Altenberg. Cologne 1973
  • "Residents and visitors": the English-American community in Baden-Baden. Baden-Baden 1990
  • How Otto Roquette became a poet: with Waldmeister from Handschuhsheim on the way to fame. Heidelberg 1997

literature

  • Wilhelm Barth: In memoriam Dr. Ursula Perkow. In: Handschuhsheimer Jahrbuch. Volume 20, 2010, pp. 118-120

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letters from Elisabeth Charlotte (Liselotte) von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (1652-1722). In: Heidelberg historical holdings digital. September 30, 2010, accessed March 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Music and Singing School Heidelberg: Music and Singing School Heidelberg: #Freundeskreis & Förderstiftung. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Perkow, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and local history researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2009
Place of death Heidelberg